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TIL Deaf People Don’t Make the “Achoo” Sound When They Sneeze, Meaning Peer Pressure Influences What Your Sneeze Sounds Like.

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160ED TIL that Martha Stewart did not go to prison for insider trading. She was charged and found guilty of lying to the FBI.
4rmw TIL that a priest on the Titanic refused to board a life boat twice, and instead stayed behind to hear confessions and give absolution to the people left on the ship.
PZvg TIL: Happier cows really do produce more milk, and simply calling cows by individual names ups production by 3.5%.
o1l8 TIL that 70% of the land in England is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army.
9lEQ TIL that today, a waist-to-hip ratio of 0.7 is considered most attractive by Indo-Europeans, and that even ancient civilizations’ representations of women most often fell in the 0.6-0.7 range.